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RefNoCMP/9/40
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date28 February 1907
DescriptionPrinted minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken. Individual minutes are numbered.

Commencing with a list of Council members present: John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury; Dr. Henry Frederick Baker; John Norman Collie; Francis Darwin (Foreign Secretary); Wyndham Rowland Dunstan; David Ferrier; Sir Archibald Geikie (Foreign Secretary); Sydney John Hickson; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Edwin Ray Lankester; Joseph Larmor (Secretary); Hugh Frank Newall; Dr. Alexander Scott; Albert Charles Seward; William Johnson Sollas; Ernest Henry Starling; Silvanus Phillips Thompson; Augustus Desire Waller; the President, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, in the chair. The Assistant Secretary [Robert Harrison] attended.

Among matters discussed or noted:

1. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and signed as correct.
2. List of candidates for election to the Fellowship, to be recommended at the Annual Meeting, the Assistant Secretary authorised to communicate the list to the public press.
3. Letter from C.P. Lucas, Downing Street, 26 February 1907, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: a request from the Earl of Elgin for a Royal Society representative to take the place of Sir Michael Foster on the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, with an expression of appreciation for the valuable services of Sir Michael Foster: the reply to note the appointment of John Rose Bradford at the previous Council and to seek authority to make the letter public.
4. Professor G.H.F. Nuttall appointed as the Royal Society representative to the Advisory Committee on Plague Investigation in India, in place of Sir Michael Foster.
5. Report of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers Committee, on printing of the Mathematics Index volume, approved.
6. Report of the International Association of Academies Committee, with recommendations on delegates, lunar nomenclature and soar research, approved and adopted.
7. List of Royal Society delegates to the General Assembly of the International Association of Academies.
8. Letters from the Decimal Association and from the British Weights and Measures Association relating to the bill before Parliament: no action to be taken.
9. Resolutions occasioned by Professor Lankester on the government's apparent neglect of representations made by the Royal Society in relaton to the new Technological Institute at South Kensington.
10. Report of the Gassiot Committee noting expenditure.
11. Report of the Soiree Committee on dates and arrangements for the annual events, approved.
12. Bills for payment on printing, engraving, book purchases and other expenses.
Extent5p.; pp.322-326
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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